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Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2013 award. This award recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Archives may include photographs, films, and visual archives. Publication may be in hard copy, microfilm, digital, or other circulating medium.

Recent winners include:

2012: Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

2011: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project Team

2010: The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2009: Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections of the University of Toledo’s “From Institution to Independence”

2008: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBC Digital Archives (Les Archives de Radio-Canada)

About MARAC

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) is a professional organization for archivists who live and work in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in the District of Columbia.